Nychos - The Awakening
135 pages
Edited by Nychos
Foreword by Dr Eileen Henry, Mag. Eleonora Posch
Artworks, narrative and cover by Nychos
28 x 21 cm
Softcover
Publisher: Rabbit Eye Movement
First Edition
2022
Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Nychos creates art in order to examine a question that has always been with him: How deep can you go?
Nychos is an alter ego, created by a kid who grew up amidst a clash of cultures: A world, where Austrian Tradition and its Hunting Culture meets Eighties Pop Culture, Comic and Television. The visual input from back then still contributes to the output of the adult.
By the means of anatomy, Nychos investigates the living species across different contexts and different media. His favorite tool is the spray can, his favorite surface is large. Questioning contrasts, he unifies looseness and accuracy. Severity and irony. The inner and the outer world. The dark and the bright. And most importantly, life and death. Within his oeuvre, one embraces the other. All becomes one.
Nychos creates art from deep within his soul. Deeply rooted in Graffiti and shaped by the visual inputs of his early years, his work comprises murals, fine art, illustrations, sculptures and animations.
The Awakening is a novel oeuvre by Nychos that originated from profound experiences and processes, both in personal and artistic dimensions. It is a body of work that tells of suffering, insight, and healing, of falling apart and reassembling. As Nychos regenerates, his work does too.
The book is also a sequel to 1111, another book first published in 2020. This sequel however doesn’t follow a linear narrative of events, it is more an expansion of these events